No doubt your lights are strung, the tree is up, and the stockings hung. Some of you may have actually ventured out on Black Friday – I contributed to the 16% increase in online shopping. I love crowds, I just don’t like frantic crowds. …

My travels this past year have taken me to Boise, ID quite a bit – not my choice of destination travel. But thankfully, my dad and his wife live there and so its given up the opportunity to visit quite a bit. …

We’ve all heard the saying, “behind every good man, there is a great woman.” And truth be told, that is the same in my case. My wife is patient, often times smarter and for sure more level-headed than I. She doesn’t yell at quarterbacks who throw interceptions on the TV – simply because “they can’t hear you…”. True. …

I will always remember September 11, 2001. I know exactly what I was doing when we were attacked and I remember a sense of pride as to how our nation was responding. I also remember that the USA PATRIOT, an acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, most commonly referred to as the Patriot Act, was implemented into law shortly after with little debate or congress review after the terrorists attacks. …

Wreaths Across America is such a great cause and one with a compelling beginning. In 1992, the Wreath Company found themselves with an excess of wreaths nearing the end of the holiday season. Morrill Worcester, the founder of Worcester Wreaths, seeing an opportunity to make a boyhood dream a reality, decided to do something special with those wreaths. …

Over Veterans Day I had the honor of swapping tales with a Korean War Veteran and we got on the subject of technology. In his day, it was common to gather around the radio and let the imagination work its wonders – televisions had yet to be common. And we both enjoyed walking down the “mail call” memory lane – in those hand written letters were moments of life back at home and pictures of loved ones. To this day, he and I still have our boxes of letters and pictures. …

Not all work places are created equal. I should know – over my career, I’ve had the opportunity to work in some 14 different companies. And with some of the consulting I do, I’m explosed to all sorts of “interesting” company dynamics. …

I was watching a comedian a few weeks ago talk about little girls and their imaginations. How everything they do and think often centers around Unicorns, rainbows and playing house. Being a dad of two little girls, I was totally relating to his five minutes of brilliance – and this contest I’m about to tell you about will get the “little girl” in all the grown women excited…and it could very well get the guys excited as well. …

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